"I would have liked to find out who Du Lizheng's backer is." Gui Chongyang sighed.

No matter how the Gui family develops, this Mujia Village is a foundation. It is really hard to feel at ease with Du Lizheng, a person who is full of malicious intentions towards the Gui family.

"Since I have been able to hide for thirty years, it is not easy to check. But after thirty years, who knows if there is any change?" Gui Wu said thoughtfully: "If we can't find it, it doesn't mean others can't find it. Over the years, I have been paying attention to the Du family. People in the village think that the Du family had rich and had 500 acres of land before. A few years ago, through the relationship between the yamen, they bought 300 acres of land in scattered areas, with a total of 800 acres of land. But in fact, the Du family's land is more than 800 acres, and the village with another ten acres of land is registered under the pseudonym of Du Lizheng!"

What is the most popular thing in Tongzhou now? Of course, it is land. Nanjing has many powerful people who have entered Beijing, and they are all rushing to buy land. The land held by the Du family has reached 1,800 acres, which is not a small number. If it is spread, someone will check the details of the Du family to see if the Du family can touch it.

"The Du family has 1,800 acres of land!" Gui Chongyang gritted his teeth and felt angry.

In that case, Du Lizheng colluded with "Donggui" to prevent the Gui family from selling land and bought the Gui family's land at a low price. He was either greedy for money or to make up all the money for the Gui family, so that Guili Zheng would lose the hearts of the people and take the opportunity to seize the position of Lizheng.

A small ambition killed nine lives.

Even residents like Guilizheng with no background can find out the danger of being a child. How could the Du family, who could find connections in the yamen and take over as a foreign household, not find out? However, in order to crack down on Guilizheng's prestige, the Du family still secretly intervened.

After nine people died, the Du family had no intention of being guilty and uneasy. They quickly married the Mei family and Li family, which eventually made Guili's reputation ruined and the Gui family was excluded from the edge.

If it were the right person, Gui Chongyang would definitely agree with this method, but the Du family was different: "The heaven has eyes!"

Gui Wu shook his head and said, "Look, Du Lizheng is still good in recent years except for expelling two families. He has his own concerns. If he were other powerful people, it would be even more uncontrollable."

Gui Chongyang frowned and understood the meaning of Gui's five chapters.

In front of the real powerful people, Du Lizheng, who was a dominant Mujia Village, was vulnerable, but the same was true for other villagers. Now, the surnames of Mujia Village live together, and except for the tragedy thirteen years ago, other days are still peaceful. If it really is to attack Du Lizheng and attract the attention of the powerful slaves, it is impossible to say that the pattern of autonomy in the village will change. When encountering such greedy and shameless people, the whole village will lose its land and become a vassal and tenant.

Even if you hold Du Lizheng's handle, you cannot use it lightly. If you use it, you will be "injuring one thousand enemies and hurting eight hundred themselves". Unless it is time to burn both jade and stones, this handle can only be verbally threatened the Du family.

Although he gave out the reward of that money and didn't have to worry about it, Gui went to Xiji Wood Store the fifth day. In addition to asking someone to ask about the amount of wood sold by Li Facai, Gui Wu also had to order wood from the Wood Store.

The house at Grandpa Gui Er’s house needs to be repaired, so it needs to be replaced with doors and windows and tiles. The tiles were decided by the kiln factory before, and the better the wood is, the less wood is, the less wood is.

Gui Chongyang did not follow him to Xiji Town again. It was a matter of money to get a house. If he wanted to make the Gui family's life go, he would still find a way to make money.

However, no matter what means to make money, in the eyes of the world, land is fundamental. Whether it is a high-ranking official or a high-ranking civilian.

Gui Chongyang's silver is useful, and he did not intend to be suppressed on the land, but yesterday theft of poplar trees in the woodland and poplar trees made Gui Chongyang start to pay attention to the land at home.

In addition to the four acres of forest land I saw up the mountain yesterday, Gui's parents' house also has two acres of land under the mountain.

The so-called "downfield" is fully expressed in its name, which means land with low output. Some "downfield" are easy to grow for a few years. After fertilizing the land, it becomes "middlefield", while some places have various disadvantages, so they have always been downfield.

According to the current land price, one acre of upland is about ten taels of silver, and the middle land is also seven or eight taels, both of which have increased faster than the previous two years. Only three stagnes of silver is one acre of downland, which is about two and a half taels of silver, which is only 20% longer than in the past.

The three brothers of the Gui family were behind their older generation parents. Gui Changhai decided to divide the two younger brothers. Except for the four acres of ancestral graves and the management of the ancestral graves, the other 60 acres of medium-field, 18 acres of land and 12 acres of forests, all of which were divided equally between the three families, 20 acres of medium-field, 6 acres of land and 4 acres of forest land.

After Gui Yuan robbed silver, Gui Changhai sold land patched silver, and Grandpa Gui Er and Grandpa Gui San also took out their own twenty acres of land to accompany their brother to overcome difficulties.

When the Gui family sold land to raise money, they were sold for seven or eight after being reduced, and there was still a shortage of forty-five taels of silver. Logically speaking, the Gui family still had more than ten acres of land and twelve acres of forest land, and there were more than one more acres of land to be raised. But who made Du Lizheng hate it? Not only did they join forces with "Donggui" to drive away the real buyer first, but then arranged for people to hang Gui Changhai. It was the last time that the real price was transferred, and there was no chance for the Gui family to continue to raise money.

As soon as the "Nine Dynasties" came out, in addition to the pensions that each family deserved, the Mei family deducted twenty-four taels of silver and four acres of ancestral grave from the Gui family; the Li family occupied the new house of Gui Changhai family, eight taels of silver; only Yang Jinzhu of the Yang family was kind and understood that something happened to the Gui family was also in trouble. Not only did they not come to the door to make trouble, but they also stopped their younger brother Yang Yinzhu who was about to cause trouble.

The three families were dragged down by the Gui family, all of which were in-laws. When the Yang family died, the father and son were Yang Changhai's brother-in-law and nephew. They were not inferior to the other two families in daily life. There was no reason to compensate the Mei family and Li family, and they bullied the Yang family, who had two deaths.

The bedridden Gui Changhai used his six acres of land and four acres of forest land as compensation to the Yang family.

Yang Jinzhu refused to accept anything, but Grandma Gui, the old aunt of the Yang family, spoke up, and Yang Jinzhu only agreed to accept half of it. Gui Changhai passed four acres of land to Yang Jinzhu, but Yang Jinzhu did not keep it himself, and gave it to his younger brother Yang Yinzhu. Therefore, the Gui family's parents' house was only two acres of land and four acres of forest land.

The second house of Gui family has six acres of land and four acres of forest land. Because the family has a large population, it has been relying on odd jobs for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to pay for subsidies over the years, so it has barely earned the money, and there is no surplus to buy new land.

The six acres of land and four acres of forest land of Gui's three-bedroom house were sold by Grandma Gui's three-bedroom house.

According to the common rules, land transactions are "asked first for the clan relatives and then for the neighbors". If the third house in Gui family sells geography, they should first sell the long house and the second house. They should not buy the two houses and the villagers who are adjacent to the other land.

If it was the Gui family's house, the second house had no male family on the excuse of the third house and the third house had already lost his inheritance, and the land of the third house could be blocked from being sold and the land could be taken back without paying a penny.

When Mrs. Li was young and widowed, Li Jiatang was thinking about the land of this house, and almost occupied it on the grounds of "management".

Although Grandma Gui San remarried, she had celebrated her husband's first anniversary. It was really not easy for a widow to take her young daughter, so she took that step.

At that time, there was only Grandma Gui in the Gui family, Mei and the young Mei family. The second house was also a family of old, young, sick and disabled, and they had no energy to help Grandma Gui San and his daughter.

Before Grandma Gui San's house came to pick up people, Grandma Gui Er came forward and helped Grandma Gui San sell the six acres of land and four acres of forest land to the Lin family, which happened to be bordering the land of the three bedrooms.

Because of Gui's parents' house, the second house was watching the third house buy land, "Donggui" came out for a while and said that "Xigui" was an unworthy descendant who had lost his ancestral property. Even "Donggui" wanted to use the same trick again, and wanted to destroy the matter by virtue of his clan identity, but did not stop the Lin family.

The Lin family was kind-hearted and did not take the opportunity to lower the price. They bought three houses of land at the market price of two taels of silver per mu, one tael of silver per mu of forest land for a total of sixteen taels of silver per mu.

Grandma Gui San was only willing to ask for half of it at that time, and wanted to give the remaining eight taels of money to the eldest and second taels of money to the eldest daughter, but she refused to accept the two. She gave the sixteen taels of money to Grandma Gui San, asking her to take away the support for her young daughter.

Because of these antecedents, the remaining eight acres of land in Gui's parents' house and the second house are bordered by Yang Yinzhu's land on one side and Lin's land on the other side. It is a piece of land reclaimed at the foot of the mountain.

Today, Gui Chongyang insists on following Guichun to see this area of ​​the fields.

Because I wanted to avoid the heat at noon, the two brothers came early, the dew in the forest was still there, and the sky was dark, and it arrived at the ground.

Looking at the sorghum field in front of me, Gui Chongyang felt his throat tight, and the taste of squeaking throat seemed to be still there. The grain was not picky and drought-resistant, so it was heavy when going to the field and could be used as food.

Gui Chongyang never wants to eat this again.

Guichun took a hoe and entered the sorghum field. Today he came to shovel the grass.

When the weather is raining in summer, the weeds in the fields are soaring, and they have to shovel them in a few days. Otherwise, the weeds will steal the energy of the ground and produce even less.

The eighteen acres of land planted in the land are planted, but they look very different. The slightly smaller land on the left, the sorghum is sparse and the weeds are overgrown in the ground, which is the land of Yang Yinzhu's family; the eight acres of land in the middle are neatly arranged, and the weeds in the ground are all newly grown, and the number is countable, which is the land of Gui's parents' house and the second house; the sorghum on the right six acres of land grows taller and stronger, and the ears are bigger, which is the land of Lin's family.

Even those who do not know farming like Gui Chongyang can tell that the Lin family’s sorghum planting is good.

"Is this a good grain plant?" Gui Chongyang stood in front of the Lin family and looked at it, and asked Gui Chun loudly.

Gui Chun's subordinate kept saying, "Yes, I just started planting this year. The first year was experimenting. It's okay to increase the yield by 20%. When we can plant it next year, the Lin family is kind."

My cousin was working, and Gui Chongyang was embarrassed to work idle, so he went into the sorghum field. Gui's parents' house also had farm tools, but before he came out, Gui Chongyang didn't think about going to the field, so he had empty hands and felt a little embarrassed now.

Seeing this, Guichun stopped quickly and said, "What are you doing in? Go out quickly, carefully cut the leaves."

"I'll pull the weeds." Gui Chongyang said, and had already squatted down.

Gui Chun said: "You can't do this, you should be confused when you squat down."

"I'll try first." Gui Chongyang still insisted.

Gui Chun knew that his cousin had a positive idea and no longer stopped him, but he was still worried and slowed down his work. Pay attention to Gui Chongyang.

Although it was early in the morning, it was midsummer and it was hot and hot in the morning and evening. It was a laborious thing for Gui Chongyang to get up and squat down. Before he could pull out half of the ridge, he started to get dizzy and sweat on his forehead, so he got up and closed his eyes to rest.

At this time, I heard a "swish" sound not far away, and Gui Chongyang opened his eyes.
Chapter completed!